sunrise

The alignment of the rising sun on the winter solstice with the Saywas in the Atacama desert, Chile.

29 May, 2018 - 13:57 ashley cowie

Sun and Earth Aligned: Ancient Andean Calendar is Illuminated on the Atacama Desert

On the winter solstice of 2017 a dedicated historian at Chile’s Pre-Columbian Art Museum in Santiago, Dr. Cecilia Sanhueza, was following a hunch in the Atacama Desert, Chile. She observed “a row of...